Example: you shot some guy in bullet time and while still in slo-mo you hit him with more bullets thus changing his direction, etc.

They're saying the in-game cinematics are impressive. Less characters but better development, similar length to the original.

Overall, everyone seems to have gotten screenshots and say it looks impressive but no one seems to have gotten to test it. That seems a little strange since it is supposed to be released at the end of October (according to the mags).

None of the previews I've seen talk about directx 8 or 9 or anything to the technical aspects of the game other than mentioning the havok engine.

Edit: found a longer preview in CG and they say it looks amazing "with greatly improved lighting effects capable of real-time shadows, cubemapping, and a realistic physics back-bone thanks to a little help from licensed Havok technology". They also mention that during the bullet-time the effects have been greatly exaggerated making it very dramatic.

I remember reading something also now about how bullet-time was tweaked a touch. The more people you kill while in bullet-time extends the bullet-time, it's meant to encourage people to play the game like Max Payne rather than hanging back and plinking people off.

I'm VERY enthused about this now, I gotta go download that clip and start drooling!

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Originally posted by OWA Wow, wow, wow, DW, 5000 posts!!! Congrats. They need to give you a 5K pin or something. That's an impressive number.

Gads, really? I kind of find it embarressing actually.

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Originally posted by OWA They're saying the in-game cinematics are impressive. Less characters but better development, similar length to the original.

Aaaargh! I hope the length was referring to the in-game cinematics rather than the game's duration cause i've...

...i've read that the devs heard the complains about the game being too short and that the length on 2 would be double the one of MP1. After the events of MP1 he returns to his old job of being a detective. Then Max meets an old "friend" of his (really now? ), the mysterious Mona Sax. Max and Sax (sounds about right to me), become VERY VERY close but she is connected somehow to the bad guys until she is thought of being suspicious of murder. I suppose that Max either cleans this mess with her aid, or accepts the blame himself in order to protect her and from then on, he finds himself in quite similar conditions to the first one. That's what i've heard

I wonder what will happened to Max when he shot by a sniper, then here could be 1 of 2 versions of next Max Payne game called...

Max Payne 3: The Rise of Max Payne - The story is about Max is rise from his wound shot by a sniper and back to work as cop again.

or...

Max Payne 3: The Clone of Max Payne - The story is about 1 year later after Max was shot, unbeknown to him when he was shot, 4 CIA agents sealed off the area and took his blood sample for the US government's top secret cloning project to clone Max Payne, the CIA agents expected Max to die within an hour. But CIA plan not exactly gone as planned. Max is saved when the ambulance arrived the scene after CIA agents escaped. One day Max received the shock of his life when he bumped into another Max at police station, Max clone was charged with theft as he had no memory collection. Max find out the background and his job is to destroy the government's top secret cloning facility to prevent the human cloning.